I found the comment from Zakwan Syah to the column by Rizal Mallarangeng, titled For Aceh, A Lesson From Scotland (October 8, 2000 edition), which the writer later responded to, quite interesting. Both letters had similarities: they both tried to draw an opinion that the conflicts in Aceh started from the central government’s injustice of over-exploiting Aceh’s natural resources, which include natural gas and oil.

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